Indoor Football provides a laugh

Kind of like high schools?

 

i've worked in indoor football for 4 years full-time. i've met some of the best people and some people who have no business being involved in organized sports ... and as much as i believe that it can be a great product, it's been ruined by utter mismanagement.

think anyone would buy a book entitled "balls in the wall?" a chronicle of indoor football?

 

Daytona Dan, with whom I have had some dealings in the past when Tupelo had an AIFA team, hits the nail on the head.
If costs are tightly controlled and a league finds the right markets, it can work ... at least for a while.
I also think indoor football is one of those things for which the novelty tends to run out over time in a given (mid-)market.

 

Are you 'avin a laugh?

 

Thank you! Nice to know I'm not the only one who feels that way. And even worse, sometimes I feel like we take things more seriously than the people who are actually involved. In my area we've got a lot of high school sports where the level of competition is pathetic because those sports aren't big at the youth level, so you get high school teams full of kids who have barely played. We cover the stuff, but nobody -- including the coaches and the kids -- expects those teams to be any good. A lot of times I wonder why we bother.

And as far as indoor football, it's a joke in my area too with a team that can't draw any fans and consequently can't pay its bills. And for reasons that pass understanding they came back this year after a disastrous season at the gate last year. We stopped covering them this year. They're awful. They don't return calls, they've got a revolving door of players, and the one game we went to was attended by around 150 people.

 

So you're not applying?

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/77915/

 

What is more of a joke, indoor football or "semi-pro" outdoor leagues?

 

Except when one of your bosses has season tickets and demands not only coverage of games, but second-day game follow-ups, mid-week features, full stat packages and game previews. Oh, yes we did.

 

Thanks for the link ... funny.

The copy editor in me also dug the "Nope to Alaska" headline, and had a laugh as I thought of John Wayne duking it out during the gold rush.

 

Apparently I'm in the minority here, but I thoroughly enjoy covering our local indoor football team. The games usually draw 1,500-2,000 people, sometimes more.

The only thing that drives me nuts is I keep my own stats to a very accurate degree, but their stat guys don't really care. If they didn't see who caught the ball, they just give the yards to the leading receiver. If they don't know an opposing player's name, I can look forward to seeing a name like "Butthole Jones" on the stat sheet. Actually, that part is kind of funny for me. If they can't count the yardage fast enough, they just round it up to the nearest 10. And then it really frustrates me when I see the follow-up press releases saying so-and-so had 220 yards receiving, but because I was paying close attention and cared about taking accurate stats, the guy had 175.

 

I see rosters where a player's college is listed as Hard Knocks

Best line when I was covering the Carolina Speed and the roster mispelled the player's alma mater in Chapel Hill....

 

There's a job posted on this board from Wasilla. That makes it 15 mins from Tahoe, right?

Should cut the drive down to about 30 hours or so ...